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World News tagged with Taliban

Pakistan Cuts Deal With Anti-American Militants
World  (tags: US, pakistan, Pakistan-Afghanistan, anti-american, militants, Taliban, Taliban militants, political deals, militant deals )

ON VACATI
- 38 days ago - hosted.ap.org
Pakistan's army, in the midst of a major new offensive against Taliban militants, has struck deals to keep two powerful, anti-U.S. tribal chiefs from joining the battle against the govt...
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Obama, Aides Debate Options for Afghanistan
World  (tags: US, Afghanistan, President Obama, presidential advisers, strategy for Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Taliban, Army General Stanley McChrystal, 40, 000 military surge, VP Joe Biden, no reduction in troops )

ON VACATI
- 42 days ago - reuters.com
Obama held three hours of talks with top advisers on a new strategy for Afghanistan on Wednesday, with some aides emphasizing that the main threat to U.S. interests is al Qaeda, not the Taliban.
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Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down" II: It Just Happened Again!
World  (tags: Afghanistan, Americans, military, war, Taliban, Al Queda, terrorism, violence, middle-east, government, militants, insurgents death, investigation )

Tom
- 51 days ago - latimes.com
Eight Americans and six Afghan troops died Saturday after being outnumbered in an attack strikingly similar to an insurgent assault 15 months ago in which nine U.S. soldiers died in an outpost in the same northeastern province, Nuristan.
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Inside Afghanistan's "Black Hawk Down"
World  (tags: Afghanistan, Americans, military, war, Taliban, Al Queda, terrorism, violence, middle-east, government, militants, insurgents death, investigation )

Tom
- 54 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
The battle of Wanat is the "Black Hawk Down" of Afghanistan, with 48 American soldiers and 24 Afghan soldiers outnumbered three to one in a four-hour firefight that left nine Americans dead and 27 wounded in one of the bloodiest days of the eight-year war
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U.S. and Britain Again Target Afghan Poppies
World  (tags: Taliban, opium, poppies, removed, cash crops, usa, British )

Lone
- 109 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The U.S. and British governments plan to spend millions of dollars over the next two months to try to persuade Afghan farmers not to plant opium poppy, by far the country's most profitable cash crop and a major source of Taliban funding and official
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Thousands Flee Pakistani War Zone
World  (tags: world, Refugees&Relief, Pakistan, violence, Taliban )

Cal
- 202 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Some residents complain the Taliban is blocking their escape
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What the Pakistani People Would Tell Obama
World  (tags: world, obama, war, violence, taliban, pakistan, people, politics, middle-east, humanrights, freedoms, government, ethics, conflict, usa )

Tom
- 203 days ago - latimes.com
"The U.S. should say in advance, the moment there's a military takeover, we're not going to deal with or financially support dictators. There's been a view that the U.S. is willing to sacrifice Pakistan's democracy to preserve its own."
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Troops Face New Tests in Afghanistan
World  (tags: afghanistan, afghan heroin, conflict, corruption, crime, death, politics, society, Taliban, terrorism, troops, violence, USA. world )

Kit
- 256 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The new strategy here involves a major -- but controversial -- push to better coordinate the efforts of NATO troops deployed in the south, a new focus for counternarcotics operations and the allocation of more troops to train Afghan security forces.
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If We Can't Win, Why Stay in Afghanistan?
World  (tags: world, canada, taliban, afghanistan, violence, war, politics, middle-east, government )

Tom
- 267 days ago - thestar.com
The Canadian Prime Minister says that Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan can never be defeated. "Quite frankly, we are never going to defeat the insurgency. My reading of Afghanistan history is that it's probably had an insurgency forever of some kind."
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Pakistan Paid Taliban $6M After Agreeing To Cease-Fire
World  (tags: world, pakistan, taliban, sharia law, militants, terrorism, war, violence, politics, conflict )

Tom
- 273 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
The cease-fire has come under significant criticism as it is seen as a sign that Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban. Even government officials admit that the Taliban are using the truce to rearm. Sharia law is to be imposed again in the region.
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From Swat Valley, Taliban Threats Reach NY Shores
World  (tags: world, terrorism, violence, usa, asia, Taliban, crime )

Cal
- 281 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Swati immigrants say some of their families are being singled out for threats, kidnapping and even murder by Taliban forces, who view them as American collaborators...even in the U.S.... by Taliban and their sympathizers.
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Why I Think Obama Is the Best Candidate on Foreign Policy
World  (tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Iraq, Iraq War, Kabul Hotel Attack, Kabul Terrorist Attack, Taliban, Terrorism, Breaking Politics News )

Blue
- 637 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
The foreign policy experience Clinton touts from her White House years is from an outdated period in history, and her vote on the Iraq war demonstrates that her judgment is not sound.
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Afghan Student's Death Sentence Hits Nerve
World  (tags: afghanistan, death sentence, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', taliban )

Brian
- 663 days ago - usatoday.com
A 23-year-old journalism student languishes in an Afghan jail, facing execution for insulting Islam. The death sentence is a sign of repression that still exists in Afghanistan more than six years after the fall of the fundamentalist Taliban regime.
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Hunting the Taliban, Finding Sick Children By the Score
World  (tags: afghanistan, children, taliban, medics )

Brian
- 715 days ago - iht.com
Soldiers from the 82d Airborne Division meeting with locals while on patrol in Pataw. Once the villagers realized that the platoons were accompanied by medics, they pushed forward sick children and pleaded for help.
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Taliban 'Hanged Boy, 12, for Spying for UK'
World  (tags: al-Qaeda, taliban, Afghanistan, war, U.K., usa, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', politics, government, middle-east, HumanRights )


- 716 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Taliban fighters hanged a 12-year-old boy from a mulberry tree, claiming he was passing information on Taliban roadside bomb attacks to police and British forces, Afghan police have said.
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